On the night of November 22nd, 1987, a man in a grinning mask seized two Chicago television stations — hijacking a sportscast and then a British sci-fi rerun with ninety seconds of distorted nonsense. Nearly forty years later, no one knows who he was.
Doctor Warthan opens CASE FILE #005 — and for the first time, the folder will not close. The forgotten “naked mile” between a studio and its tower, the broadcast pirate who exploited it, the hunt that went cold by sunrise, and the only unsolved case in the Society’s files.